ostrich

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Recent Examples of ostrich Some of the popular products are ostrich liver bites and ostrich trachea tubes from a farm in South Carolina. Chase Jordan, Charlotte Observer, 24 Sep. 2025 Gown with slices of sheer green beaded fabric and green satin, with green ostrich-fur accents, matching gloves, a very long train, and a face-covering headpiece. Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2025 Ignore it, and the ground shifts beneath ostrich-minded leaders. Tor Constantino, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025 This compendium showed not only running domestic animals (dogs and cats, cows and pigs) but also a bison, a deer, an elephant, and a tiger, as well as a running ostrich and a flying parrot. IEEE Spectrum, 23 May 2019 See All Example Sentences for ostrich
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ostrich
Noun
  • In addition to elephants, the delta is home to such animals as buffalos, hippos and antelopes.
    David Chiu, PEOPLE, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The train includes views of wildflowers, geologic formations, deer, antelope, elk, fox, eagles, and sometimes even bears.
    Opheli Garcia Lawler, Travel + Leisure, 6 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • She was named for Steve's favorite crocodile, per the Australia Zoo.
    Jamie Ballard, PEOPLE, 14 Oct. 2025
  • No one else in Hollywood could pull off staring down a crocodile the size of a football field or tag-teaming with a gigantic gorilla.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Sometimes, though, the snakes eat all of the birds.
    Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Deaths from snake bites in Australia are rare.
    Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Hunters in alligator management zone 1 in southwest Arkansas checked 69 alligators, and hunters in south-central Arkansas, zone 2, harvested four.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Their logo is literally an alligator eating an oyster in the sun.
    Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Within days, tables were lining the sidewalks of Khan Younis and Gaza City, piled high with avocados, oranges, and even fresh chicken.
    Clayton Dalton, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Serve this creamy chicken casserole.
    Nellah Bailey McGough, Southern Living, 18 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Buy them in bootie format or with a snakeskin finish.
    Nuria Luis, Glamour, 18 Oct. 2025
  • The barely there silhouette retails from $795 for core colorways, like Reinhart’s black pair, climbing to $950 for textured finishes like red, gold and green snakeskin.
    Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • They’re made with premium goatskin leather, GORE-TEX waterproofing, and cozy PrimaLoft® Gold insulation, and have a comfortable, moisture-wicking liner made from Calamai wool.
    Will Porter, Outside, 14 Oct. 2025
  • These goatskin leather gloves are a match for heavy-duty garden work.
    Nora Taylor, Architectural Digest, 24 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The Chiefs could try to get the Raiders to jump offside, run a QB sneak to try to convert for a first down or take a penalty and move the ball backward to set up for a punt.
    Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 19 Oct. 2025
  • The drive was capped off by a sneak from senior quarterback Timothy Murphy from one yard out.
    Erik Anderson, Boston Herald, 18 Oct. 2025

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“Ostrich.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ostrich. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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